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People that are going to turn 180 and abandon DH because CR isn't using it were never actually interested in the game as a game anyway.
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Or, and here's an idea, they do call it Dark Sun, and the people who were going to complain about it anyway will complain about it, and...
Thursday at 10:54 PM
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So you then disagree with most players who have voted Lost Mines of Phandelver as one of the best adventures WotC has ever written then...
Thursday at 10:51 PM
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Effort, taste, interest, capabilities of the DM, capabilities of the players, variation of degree, any number of things. Complicated...
Thursday at 6:29 PM
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i wholeheartedly agree. But is the scarcity of this due to effort or taste?
Thursday at 6:17 PM
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For the most part... any games that aren't actually roleplaying games but which you could roleplay as you played it if you wanted to...
Thursday at 4:33 PM
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I'm happy to adapt my statement away from "most obvious" answer to "most likely" answer. Because that has nothing to do with...
Thursday at 4:28 PM
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I don't think you've taken @Crimson Longinus at their word. Notice the operative bit you left out, bolded for emphasis: "Some...
Thursday at 4:18 PM
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Both things are necessary yes... but I personally just happen to believe that while gameplay isn't a vestigial organ to story, gameplay...
Thursday at 4:16 PM
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Conversely: TTRPGs are the only place where we can have the two parts of that actually, truly, interact dynamically. Video games cannot...
Thursday at 4:11 PM
DEFCON 1
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Hey now... if it wasn't for math Richard Trevithick wouldn't have been able to invent the railroad in the first place! ;)
Thursday at 4:09 PM
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Insisting that 2 + 2 = 4 is taking away my mathematical agency and is a railroad.
Thursday at 4:07 PM
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So you want your players to not play smart? To make bad decisions based on the information they have in hand? Or is it you just don't...
Thursday at 3:44 PM
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And great module authors have set scenes up in a certain way that results in players who do what they think is the smartest response to...
Thursday at 3:36 PM
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Ah, but this last part... Linear also means singular or one dimension focus. If the campaign premise is to find and hunt vampires, and...
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